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CHAPTER TWENTY-SIX SUMER, AKKAD, EBLA AND ANATOLIA
 Christoph Bachhuber INTRODUCTION N o other topic has attracted as much in ...

too quickly derive their interpretations of material culture from analogies with the MBA, or from pseudo-historical outlines of ...

trading enclaves of the early second millennium for clues to the nature and meaning of these earlier networks. The paramount int ...

Sumer, Akkad, Ebla and Anatolia Figure 26.2 Chronological chart for the third millennium Year 2000 2100 2200 2300 2400 2500 2600 ...

Asˇsˇur, Carchemish is described as being “in the hands of the king of Ebla” (Pettinato 1981 : 103 ). The extent of Eblaite ente ...

The “King of Battle” begins with Sargon rallying his reluctant troops to campaign against the distant kingdom of Purusˇanda (Pur ...

These interpretations of the King of Battle and Great Revolt narratives have been challenged, most vocally from authors like Liv ...

through a metal vessel that was being hauled away as booty from the distant and defeated kingdom. The most decidedly Akkadian ar ...

gold jewelry, including garment pins. The director of the excavation, N. Bilgen, has been quoted widely in Turkish news media, s ...

–– Sumer, Akkad, Ebla and Anatolia –– Figure 26.4Syrian Bottles and their distribution (from Rahmstorf 2006 : figs. 4 and 5 , wi ...

On the other hand, petrographic analyses on Syrian-inspired forms from Troy have revealed a fabric that is not local to the Troa ...

Anatolian archaeology because so much of it has indeed been discovered in mortuary and other kinds of depositional contexts like ...

weights in the archaeological record of Syro-Mesopotamia and adjacent regions suggests that this technology was widely adopted d ...

Treasure deposit C from late Troy II–III (Schliemann 1880 : no. 821 ). Several silver “Zungenbarren” forms were also recovered f ...

consigned to individuals or gods (Sumerian níg-ba). Of the two, gift exchanges are more relevant to the problem of trade in EBA ...

CONCLUDING THOUGHTS For the moment, it appears that nothing so linear as the MBA Assyrian trading net- work existed during the t ...

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